Lead Web Development Instructor

The goal of any instructor is to drive outcomes. As the lead of a course, the buck stops with you, but we are looking for people that LOVE TEACHING. We make it a mission to seek out teachers who can infect, infuse and inspire with passion, wisdom, positivity, and humor. They show students how to love what they do, and how to better love who they are.

The Lead Web Development Instructor will:

Make No Little Plans

Build for scale by planning, writing, and delivering lectures in accordance with the progress and pace of the class.

Pilot our experimental efforts in curriculum and pedagogical style pursuing our collective unending quest to provide the best experience and most positive outcomes.

Develop and lead student project sprints throughout the semester.

Radiate Positivity

Create a safe and collaborative environment where students understand that helping their peers betters their own experience.

Find what to love. Leverage passion as a force for motivation by sharing what you are passionate about with your students and working those topics into lesson plans as appropriate.

Be Scrappy

Embrace change and thrive in ambiguity by helping students and staff with real time efforts, like debugging a student’s project or assignment, while devoting time and effort to developing the macro learning plan.

Move quickly by prepare your own lectures but anticipating last minutes changes based on the class' progress and learning goals.

Pursue Mastery

Use feedback from students gathered via class surveys to greatly exceed the minimum bar.

Integrate feedback from team members on progress of class to set pacing and determine tactical interventions.

Work Together

Provide feedback to team members by conducting weekly 1 on 1s and overcommunciating on a daily basis.

Empower others to succeed by conducting interviews for instructors and students for future cohorts.

Qualifications for Lead Web Development Instructor:

A lead instructor must qualify for BOTH of the following requirements:

Web instructors must demonstrate intimate knowledge of a dynamically typed language such as Python, Ruby or JavaScript as used in a production environment.

Prior experience teaching code to a class of students

About Flatiron Students:

Every class is a culture. We don’t fill seats – we assemble cultures – bringing together unique individuals from diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We encourage a collaborative, buzzing, challenging environment thick with inspiration and encouragement.

About Flatiron School

Flatiron School teaches passionate, creative people how to code. We’ve been teaching since 2012, and now we’re developing software and programs to bring our successful curriculum to more students. We are more than just a school — we are a team of mission-driven individuals trying to align education with reality. Over our five years as a school, we’ve helped over one thousand students learn to code and launch careers in tech. To achieve these outcomes, we’ve never let ourselves stop growing – we’ve constantly iterated on our curriculum, evolved our teaching techniques, and created technology to improve our students’ learning experience.

For the next step in our growth, Flatiron School has joined the WeWork family. In WeWork, we’ve found a partner who shares the mission we’ve had since the beginning: to enable passionate people to learn the skills they need to pursue careers and lives they love. And that mission won’t change. As part of WeWork, we look forward to working together to expand our in-person and online programs and further increase accessibility to our transformative education.

Benefits at Flatiron School

Flatiron-specific company events, as well as events and retreats as part of the WeWork family

Participation in an equity incentive plan

Commuter benefits

Paid vacation and holidays

Unlimited sick days

About Flatiron School

Flatiron School is a coding bootcamp with online and in-person courses that teach students real developer skills. Start one of Flatiron School’s job-guaranteed courses for Web and iOS Development, Certificate Courses, or Free Courses, and join a community of students passionate about learning to love code.

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